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Here is the ill-fated RMS Lusitania. A Cunard ocean liner, that was sunk by the German U-Boat on May 7th, 1915. I used this model to create few videos and wanted to make a game out of it, but then i found that there is already one being made and model there is pretty well made. So i share mine...

Hello, guys. I'm making a 3D model of Lusitania and actually i feel like i'm almost done. But there are some places, that i want to cover and i have no info about it. So i have few questions. Also i'd like to receive critics, so i could improve my model.
Right now i have no plans for it. I wanted to make a real-time sinking animation, but i already see it's being done and done pretty well! Making a game is my other desire, but it will take a lot of time to learn many things and remake the model to use textures instead of Cycles shaders in Blender.
Any way, here are my questions:
1 - I have only two photos of her bridge. What are those flip tables and watertight door indication panel looked like?
2 - Fire alarm bell? It is marked on bridge plans, but i have no images.
3 - Reading testimony, i found crew mentioned, they read her tilt in degrees. How does this gauge looks like and where was it located?
4 - what is the exact locations of life-rings? So far i found only 14 positions on photos.
5 - I have doubts about aft cranes. On photos they seem to have fixed tilt. But there are also photos, where their beams hanged horizontally. How did they achieve that?
6 - what was inside that little house under her docking bridge? I assume there might be another set of steering wheel telemotor, but i'm not sure. And no photos.
7 - Any images of telemotors charts? Like docking, lookouts, etc. I made my own textures, but i'm 100% sure they are not correct.
8 - Are there any good deck plans. And by good, i mean better, than those on www.rmslusitania.info . As good, as Titanic's plans here on this site. If i had them, i would consider to make interiors as well.

Thanx in advance for your help and critics. Now have some renders of the model
I also created a dedicated YouTube channel and post videos of my work there. RMS Lusitania 3D

Oh, those kind of details are visible on the photos and off-course i will consult the photos first. Plans are good for reference and they give accurate sizes of various rooms. Like i had trouble locating pillars in Open Cafe, looking at them from different angles on different photos. Also the location of chairs there. Never knew they were actually bolted to the deck
Luckily i bought that book "The Unseen Lusitania" - it contains some photos, that i've never found on Google and gave me some info of some parts. I maybe buy some other books. I would even buy the plans for a reasonable price.
If some historians or photo collectors show up here - i will post more details to ask about them

And yes, i will do more animations. Problem is - render time. I'm not using any game engine and my first video rendered about 3 days. And it's only 35 seconds!

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I really like some of the finer details of your model, i had to scale features out of the one im using due to too many poly's for it to run smoothly. Its the same reason i had to drop featuring the interior for the demo

I really like some of the finer details of your model, i had to scale features out of the one im using due to too many poly's for it to run smoothly. Its the same reason i had to drop featuring the interior for the demo

Yes, i made it completely from scratch. My initial effort was to make something for one community, where people fascinated by Titanic and other ships of that era. I left it, because my personal approach to history wasn't appreciated. But after months of work, i just couldn't left the work and here i am - asking questions to improve it
At first i thought Lusi had less attention and been in shadow of Titanic. Probably many people learn about Lusitania only after they learn about Titanic and became interested in overall history. But now i see it's not quite true. Many books, models, videos. Even a movie

As for other ships... You see, right now i'm doing it for free, aside from my main job. As a hobby. So probably no. Except maybe a tug boat, that i gonna need for animations. If i will not find any free model to put into it.

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So far no replies... Still looking for a good plans. And by good i mean like this (first image), but for the whole ship... I only found a small parts of the plans here on this forum. But some people share some parts of their plans, and they look like this (second image). I may even consider to buy them for a reasonable price.